Everything Is a Gift – So Live as a Giver

14th Week in Ordinary Time – Thursday

Genesis 44:18 21. Matthew 10:7, 15

Everything Is a Gift – So Live as a Giver

• Life is not something we control or possess.
• Life is a gift.
• And gifts are meant to be shared.

Jesus sends out the apostles with authority to heal and to proclaim the Kingdom. But He reminds them first: “Freely you have received; freely give.”

The mission, the message, even the joy they carry—none of it is their own.

It is all grace. So the only fitting response is generosity.

In the First Reading, Joseph could have chosen revenge. He had been betrayed, abandoned, falsely accused. Yet when he stands before the very brothers who sold him, he sees not his pain, but God’s purpose:

“God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.”

• Joseph does not cling to the past.
• He does not say, I was sold.
• He says, I was sent.

One word changes everything. Faith transforms suffering into mission. Gifted people become giving people.

So, what do we see when we look at our own lives? If everything looks like a burden, we become victims.

• If everything looks like a gift, we become blessings.
• If time is a gift, we give it freely.
• If talents are a gift, we use them joyfully.
• If ministry is a gift, we serve humbly.

Let us pray to see with Joseph’s eyes and love with Christ’s heart— because everything we have is a gift, and the most beautiful way to keep a gift is to give it away with love.